Senior Network Engineer

Telstra Corporation; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-related pay

Access to learning programs

Global presence across 22 countries

Purchased annual leave scheme

Additional Telstra day off

Additional 30% off Telstra products &

Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile)

Laptop + phone plan paid for

Job summary

Telstra Corporation in Melbourne is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join the Mobile Service Edge team. The role focuses on delivering strategic network transformation initiatives, enhancing operational stability, and modernising critical infrastructure across multi-vendor environments.

You will work across engineering, operations, architecture, and delivery teams to support BAU operations and complex transformation programs, contributing to lifecycle management and automation efforts.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years in network engineering for large enterprise or service provider.
• Hands-on with Cisco and/or Juniper platforms.
• Experience in BGP, OSPF, HSRP/VRRP, STP routing and switching.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, support and optimise network infrastructure across large-scale environments.
• Deliver network migration and modernisation initiatives.
• Support operational stability, resilience and service reliability outcomes.
• Perform root cause analysis and drive continuous improvement.
• Develop and maintain automation solutions to improve operational efficiency.
• Contribute to platform lifecycle management, technology refresh and transformation programs.
• Support change implementation, incident management and problem resolution.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure project delivery.

Skills

10+ years network engineering

Cisco/Juniper platforms

BGP OSPF HSRP/VRRP STP

Network migration & transformation

IaC / Network automation

Cloud networking concepts

High availability & fault tolerance

Job description

Employment Details

Employment Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 1 Nov 2026 11:59pm

Job Title: Senior Network Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Network Engineer to join the Mobile Service Edge team within Core & Internet Engineering portfolio. This role will be responsible for supporting the delivery of strategic network transformation initiatives, operational stability improvements, infrastructure modernisation, and lifecycle management activities across critical network platforms. The successful candidate will contribute to both business-as-usual operations and complex transformation programs, working across multi-vendor networking environments and collaborating with engineering, operations, architecture, and delivery teams.

What We Offer

• Performance-related pay
• Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up
• Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business
• Purchased annual leave scheme
• Additional Telstra day off
• Additional 30% off Telstra products and services
• Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile phone + plan paid for)

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, support and optimise network infrastructure across large-scale environments.
• Deliver network migration and modernisation initiatives.
• Support operational stability, resilience and service reliability outcomes.
• Perform root cause analysis and drive continuous improvement activities.
• Develop and maintain automation solutions to improve operational efficiency.
• Contribute to platform lifecycle management, technology refresh and transformation programs.
• Support change implementation, incident management and problem resolution activities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful project delivery.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years' experience in Network Engineering within large enterprise or service provider environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Cisco and/or Juniper networking platforms.
• Proven expertise in: BGP OSPF HSRP/VRRP STP Routing and Switching technologies
• Experience delivering network migration and transformation projects.
• Exposure to network automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Understanding of cloud networking concepts and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical network services.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Certifications

One or more of the following:

• CCNA / CCNP
• JNCIA / JNCIS / JNCIP
• AWS Cloud Practitioner
• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
• Network automation or cloud certifications

Strategic Alignment

• Network Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) through reliability and operational excellence.
• Network Infrastructure through lifecycle and technology refresh activities.
• Product & Platform Network Engineering through modernisation and automation initiatives.
• Network Analytics through improved visibility, data quality and service assurance outcomes.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to work on large-scale network transformation programs, modernisation initiatives, and critical infrastructure supporting millions of customer services. You will play a key role in shaping future network platforms while contributing to operational excellence and engineering innovation across the network domain.

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We strongly encourage women and gender-diverse people to apply and are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements or adjustments to the recruitment process.

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